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Example sentences for: urbane
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The urbane assume and of course finesse the real meaning of the sentence, i.e., “We are worried that you may have indeed submitted this essay elsewhere.”
In Richard Conniff's urbane account of travelers' putdowns of some of the great and not so great cities of the world [XIV,3], he quotes a splendid passage from Dr. Samuel Johnson's poem on London, which culminates with the words, “Here falling houses thunder on your head, / And here a female atheist talks you dead.”
If I want to have conversation about the trivia of urban life, I can talk with my own wife; and you can fill the otherwise entertaining, informative, urbane, and whimsical pages of
1 is an urbane critic who delights in a clever, lyrical celebration of creamy fleshiness.
But if he's too human to be another Borges, he's too intellectual and urbane to be another García Márquez.